...Long before you fell apart physically, you would be dead or insane from the mental collapse.
Just theories. Who said that brain activity will slow down as well? The way I see it, body being in a hibernate state will require much less activity from the brain, giving it more capacity to process current memories. It might be a wash. We won't know until experimented upon.
Interesting... so if 90% of everything is crap, then of the remaining 10%, 90% of THAT is crap, too. So 99% of everything is crap. But then 90% of the remaining 1% is crap, so 99.9% is crap. Repeating this indefinitely, it follows that 100% of everything is crap.
You could actually reverse the logic: 10% of everything is not crap, or good stuff. So out of the remaining 90% there is also 10% good stuff. And 10% of the remaining, and so on... Using infinite loop you'll get that everything is good stuff.
Actually, I just took the CPR course recently, and they specifically left out 'taking the persons pulse' and told us to rely on watching for signs of movement in the chest, and looking for breathing.
Hmmm... Seen on several movies. After a death penalty execution, a doctor comes forward to check if the guy is really dead. He checks the pulse on the neck, and if none found he considers him dead (signs the death certificate). Not sure if this is an actual practice, but if it is, the method has be changed...
Well, I once got a parking ticket for "intent to park" in an unauthorised space.
Reminds me of a joke popular in Poland in early 80's. This was after the martial law was issued, and part of it was police hour from 10p.m. to 6 a.m. Nobody was allowed on the streets during these hours.
So, 2 policemen keeps patrolling the streets. Time is 9:50pm, and they see a man walking in a fast pace. One of the policemen takes his gun and shots the man. The other policeman asks: "why did you shot him? It's only 9:50?". He replied: "I know where he lives, he wouldn't make it home on time".
1. Person A makes claim X.
2. Person B makes an attack on person A.
3. Therefore A's claim is false.
Interesting. However in this case I don't think grandparent was trying to say that the claim was false, rather that it should not have as much weight.
In this case, Van Allen makes a claim. Let's consider this claim objectively, it's merits, all cons and against. But because Van Allen is considered a distinguished name in space circles, his opinions have a lot of weight. The grandparent was just saying: don't put so much weight in those opinions because of the speaker, because the speaker might not live up to his reputation (any more).
I think Huffman was just being humble, hence he did not use his name for the coding.
Re your Chinese food comment: in US asking where to eat American food would be a valid question, since "American" is one of restaurant categories. Check any business/restaurant locator (superpages.com f.ex.).
Even if you don't have a Palm Pilot, Palm Desktop under Windows isn't too bad.
Agreed. I was actually thinking of mentioning it, when I saw your post. The GUI is simple, ToDo list can be assigned priorities, due dates, alerts, put in appropriate categories, etc, and sorted according to the need.
And if you have an actual palm, you have the added benefit of being able to carry the ToDo list when not in front of a computer. And backup of course: should your palm crash, you have everything backed up on your computer, and vice versa.
The salary of middle management and IT staff went down. It's just that the salaries of upper management went up by enough to raise the average.
How could that be? If you take the middle management and IT workers into 1 bucket, and upper management into another, I would expect quite a big ratio (a lot more people in the first bucket). So if what you said were true the total average had to go down because of the weight. The average is calculated by sum(change_per_worker)/number_of_workers. Given that the number of upper management workers is so much smaller, they could not tip the whole scale to their advantage.
The Visby corvette is going to be in active service in the swedish navy.
I thought I post a small correction here: Sweden being a neutral country (spared them in WWII), doesn't have a need for large/modern army/defense. However, their military manufacturing makes a decent chunk of their economy. They export most of the goods, and if the stuff is modern enough there will be lot of buyers.
Billing purposes, in case their system goes haywire or something... They're already storing who sent the message to whom and when. Adding context doesn't require lot of extra space, since the messages are textual and short.
It's located in a Spainish National Park. You need to get permission from Spian to do that...you can't just walk into a National Park anywhere and start digging
But I would think that Spanish government would be interested to find out if there is any merit to this. I mean, if found true not only would that be a drooling place for archeologist geeks, but also a tourist attraction.
...so anything that zonealarm misses is heading straight for me.
Well, at least you have zonealarm. My clueless neighbor just recently asked me to check his computer, since he had some "problems" with it. I checked, he had XP w/o any firewall/virus/spyware on it. His computer would reset itself every 7 minutes (I guess some kind of worm) every time he connected to internet.
So, I installed zonealarm and ad-aware from my external HD. When connected to internet I was surprised by how many attempts to connect or send data out zonealarm blocked. Geez, this was like an army waiting to either destroy or use his computer for some other malicious tasks. And ad-aware found over 200 spyware programs! Suffice to say, computer stopped resetting. I run an online virus program as well. I still have to update his XP with patches, but that for another evening.
Internet is a nasty place now-adays. I thought XP comes with a build-in firewall. Guess either he bought it before that was the case, or the firewall is off by default, or it just plain sucks.
I agree. This is just a total waste of money from Microsoft's side, since Linux Today readers will either ignore these ads, or laugh them off. And Linux Today has a nice revenue stream. So what's the problem?
The founder afraid these ads will turn someone into a Microsoft fan, heh?
Agreed, people really need to learn to use sarcasm tags when posting to sites frequented by Americans.
I don't think this feature is specific to Americans. It's rather typical to techno-geeks, who spend way too much time in front of a computer, and way to little in a real life scenarios. Sarcasm skills are picked up through "live" contacts by watching face expressions, tone fluctuations, etc. In front of a computer things have a tendency to look kind of dry, and things are taken very literally quite often.
Broil is when you put the food directly under the flames.
But how can that be? Given the fact that flames go up, how can you possibly put any food under it? A flame requires some kind of source (gas, wood, coal, etc.) which has to be on some kind of surface. So according to your definition, would the food be under the mentioned surface?
Unless you meant heat radiation which can be directed downward.
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...but can somebody explain the informative mod?
Click on the parent link on the pound post. There's an inline question in there...
...Long before you fell apart physically, you would be dead or insane from the mental collapse.
Just theories. Who said that brain activity will slow down as well? The way I see it, body being in a hibernate state will require much less activity from the brain, giving it more capacity to process current memories. It might be a wash. We won't know until experimented upon.
yes, but the other part would be:
...working engines that use it...
you said it yourself. From what I understand they only exist in theory for now. Implementing them will certainly open up whole new box of obstacles.
Interesting ... so if 90% of everything is crap, then of the remaining 10%, 90% of THAT is crap, too. So 99% of everything is crap. But then 90% of the remaining 1% is crap, so 99.9% is crap. Repeating this indefinitely, it follows that 100% of everything is crap.
You could actually reverse the logic: 10% of everything is not crap, or good stuff. So out of the remaining 90% there is also 10% good stuff. And 10% of the remaining, and so on... Using infinite loop you'll get that everything is good stuff.
Actually, I just took the CPR course recently, and they specifically left out 'taking the persons pulse' and told us to rely on watching for signs of movement in the chest, and looking for breathing.
Hmmm... Seen on several movies. After a death penalty execution, a doctor comes forward to check if the guy is really dead. He checks the pulse on the neck, and if none found he considers him dead (signs the death certificate). Not sure if this is an actual practice, but if it is, the method has be changed...
Well, I once got a parking ticket for "intent to park" in an unauthorised space.
Reminds me of a joke popular in Poland in early 80's. This was after the martial law was issued, and part of it was police hour from 10p.m. to 6 a.m. Nobody was allowed on the streets during these hours.
So, 2 policemen keeps patrolling the streets. Time is 9:50pm, and they see a man walking in a fast pace. One of the policemen takes his gun and shots the man. The other policeman asks: "why did you shot him? It's only 9:50?". He replied: "I know where he lives, he wouldn't make it home on time".
1. Person A makes claim X.
2. Person B makes an attack on person A.
3. Therefore A's claim is false.
Interesting. However in this case I don't think grandparent was trying to say that the claim was false, rather that it should not have as much weight.
In this case, Van Allen makes a claim. Let's consider this claim objectively, it's merits, all cons and against. But because Van Allen is considered a distinguished name in space circles, his opinions have a lot of weight. The grandparent was just saying: don't put so much weight in those opinions because of the speaker, because the speaker might not live up to his reputation (any more).
Could you imagine having your snailmail box /.'d?
/.ers only use snailmail for Only birthday/Xmas cards. Handwriting is a dying (if not already dead) skill over here.
Won't happen. Most
What amenities/factors cause you to love or hate your office?
privacy would be one of my greatest concerns. I would just hate working when someone would always hang behind/beside me.
I think Huffman was just being humble, hence he did not use his name for the coding.
Re your Chinese food comment: in US asking where to eat American food would be a valid question, since "American" is one of restaurant categories. Check any business/restaurant locator (superpages.com f.ex.).
Even if you don't have a Palm Pilot, Palm Desktop under Windows isn't too bad.
Agreed. I was actually thinking of mentioning it, when I saw your post. The GUI is simple, ToDo list can be assigned priorities, due dates, alerts, put in appropriate categories, etc, and sorted according to the need.
And if you have an actual palm, you have the added benefit of being able to carry the ToDo list when not in front of a computer. And backup of course: should your palm crash, you have everything backed up on your computer, and vice versa.
The salary of middle management and IT staff went down. It's just that the salaries of upper management went up by enough to raise the average.
How could that be? If you take the middle management and IT workers into 1 bucket, and upper management into another, I would expect quite a big ratio (a lot more people in the first bucket). So if what you said were true the total average had to go down because of the weight. The average is calculated by sum(change_per_worker)/number_of_workers. Given that the number of upper management workers is so much smaller, they could not tip the whole scale to their advantage.
As does Citibank, although I use Mozilla 1.5. I have not tried 1.6 nor the new 1.7 yet.
The only site I use that won't work with Mozilla is one of the online virus checkers which I use occasionally.
Reutersis is reporting that a giant Apollo moon rocket...
For a while I thought that Reuter got a sister I don't know about...
The Visby corvette is going to be in active service in the swedish navy.
I thought I post a small correction here: Sweden being a neutral country (spared them in WWII), doesn't have a need for large/modern army/defense. However, their military manufacturing makes a decent chunk of their economy. They export most of the goods, and if the stuff is modern enough there will be lot of buyers.
...for what reason would they keep it stored?
Billing purposes, in case their system goes haywire or something... They're already storing who sent the message to whom and when. Adding context doesn't require lot of extra space, since the messages are textual and short.
It's located in a Spainish National Park. You need to get permission from Spian to do that...you can't just walk into a National Park anywhere and start digging
But I would think that Spanish government would be interested to find out if there is any merit to this. I mean, if found true not only would that be a drooling place for archeologist geeks, but also a tourist attraction.
to cite the wise man:
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana
History has always something to teach us. You don't have to be a history freak, but at least don't promote its ignorance as a good thing.
...patching is something you do with clothes
Huh? I don't understand what you're trying to say here. Please explain...
...so anything that zonealarm misses is heading straight for me.
Well, at least you have zonealarm. My clueless neighbor just recently asked me to check his computer, since he had some "problems" with it. I checked, he had XP w/o any firewall/virus/spyware on it. His computer would reset itself every 7 minutes (I guess some kind of worm) every time he connected to internet.
So, I installed zonealarm and ad-aware from my external HD. When connected to internet I was surprised by how many attempts to connect or send data out zonealarm blocked. Geez, this was like an army waiting to either destroy or use his computer for some other malicious tasks. And ad-aware found over 200 spyware programs! Suffice to say, computer stopped resetting. I run an online virus program as well. I still have to update his XP with patches, but that for another evening.
Internet is a nasty place now-adays. I thought XP comes with a build-in firewall. Guess either he bought it before that was the case, or the firewall is off by default, or it just plain sucks.
I agree. This is just a total waste of money from Microsoft's side, since Linux Today readers will either ignore these ads, or laugh them off. And Linux Today has a nice revenue stream. So what's the problem?
The founder afraid these ads will turn someone into a Microsoft fan, heh?
Agreed, people really need to learn to use sarcasm tags when posting to sites frequented by Americans.
I don't think this feature is specific to Americans. It's rather typical to techno-geeks, who spend way too much time in front of a computer, and way to little in a real life scenarios. Sarcasm skills are picked up through "live" contacts by watching face expressions, tone fluctuations, etc. In front of a computer things have a tendency to look kind of dry, and things are taken very literally quite often.
Until the definition of "highest" remains fuzzy, both will now claim to be one.
Broil is when you put the food directly under the flames.
But how can that be? Given the fact that flames go up, how can you possibly put any food under it? A flame requires some kind of source (gas, wood, coal, etc.) which has to be on some kind of surface. So according to your definition, would the food be under the mentioned surface?
Unless you meant heat radiation which can be directed downward.